Andrew Rosenthal: Fabulist

Sean Davis reminds everyone what a fabulist the editor of the New York Times editorial page is.

Rosenthal made up the story about George H. W. Bush and the supermarket checkout scanner in 1992. He assigned the headline “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” to a submission by Mitt Romney, and he can’t even get Ben Carson’s name right.

Campaign internal polling is often more accurate than public polling. The campaigns dedicate more resources and want the polls as accurate as possible. The campaigns that take shortcuts can wind up in a world of hurt. Media polls often do the same. They rely on pretty inaccurate online polls or they don’t call enough people or they form groups of voters to call based on databases, etc...